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Very successful HCI Lab. Annual Summer Training:
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the successful completion of the 2017 #HCI_Lab summer internship program. Out of more than 30 applicants, 15 students made it through six weeks of #multidisciplinary#research intensive tracks. The tracks spanned a wide spectrum of #Computer_Science areas such as: Human-Computer Interaction #HCI, Internet of Things #IoT, #Data_Science and #Machine_Learning, #Cryptography, #Image_Processing and Brain-Computer Interfaces #BCI. Each successful student is offered the opportunity to further pursue research with one of the lab’s professors building towards publishing a student #paper. We are hoping to see more high-caliber enthusiastic students in our upcoming cycles for the coming years, God willing.

Dr, Ayman Ezzat

Dr, Ayman Ezzat

1- Delegating Computation using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE): Cloud security is a common concern in many markets today, including the Egyptian Ministry of Communication. Many users today worry for their data and/or trade-secret algorithms that they are not willing to submit them to the cloud for execution even if they need to. The aim of this project is to allow a user to send his program to the cloud for execution, while preserving the secrecy of both, his data, and his algorithm. The approach to this problem will employ Fully Homomorphic Encryption (see the list of references below) to implement an LLVM virtual machine, that will be able to execute any application, given it was compiled to LLVM, and then encrypted using an FHE scheme.

2- Cryptographic E-Voting: Electronic voting have been a rising field of research for the past few years and have been deployed in real-life situations in many countries. However, the existing approaches may not cover all the challenges facing developing countries. In particular, the unavailability of a reliable internet connection in many rural–and sometimes urban–areas; the potentially widespread corruption; and the illiteracy, whether to reading or to technology. The goal of this project is to investigate and implement a (partial) solution that is tailored to the unique challenges in Egypt, a developing country, using advanced cryptographic techniques, while at the same time assuring the whole system can tolerate the decaying infrastructure and be easily understandable by the general public.

Dr, Ayman Ezzat

In order a quickly and easily to create Augmented Reality and real-time application.We would like to build a smart augmented reality engine that allows ordinary users to develop their own AR education/entertainment applications. The engine aims to reduce the development cost and time needed to develop an AR application. Even-thought their exist some commercial AR engines they either requires programming knowledge or restricting their usage to predefined setups. We aim to deliver an AR engine that can utilize novel IHCII input devices (Kinect , WII, leap motion,…ETC). Moreover, ARENA allows ordinary users to build their own AR markers and scenarios with a usable GUI. ARENA users can create an Augmented reality application on mobile application.